Calder, William Moir, Sir, 1881 - 1960 (Knight, archaeologist and classical scholar)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1881 - 1960
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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Byzantine stone low in Mosque wall, 1929 - 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/6/2/9
Scope and Contents
With man, possibly W. M. Calder, bending to inspect the stone. [This is possibly the same stone reproduced from a separate image in Plate 17 in M. A. M. A, Vol IV, Dokimeion, Prymnessos, Akroenos].
Dates:
1929 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Access permitted via the Cambridge University Digital Library. Requests for publication to be directed to the College Archivist to pass on to Dr Guthrie for permission.
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Glass lantern slides taken on expeditions to Asia Minor, 1929 - 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/6/2
Scope and Contents
81 glass slides in two wooden boxes, marked in hand on the outside 'Slides for talk on Asia Minor'. Includes index to (most of) the slides on three sheets. One box contained numbered slides and a corresponding indexed list, including additional slides which appears to correspond with some slides in the second (unnumbered) box. Some of these are similar or identical to plates in the published 1933 volume relating to the expeditions. Where possible, titles are those from the handwritten...
Dates:
1929 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access:
Access permitted via the Cambridge University Digital Library. Requests for publication to be directed to the College Archivist to pass on to Dr Guthrie for permission.
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Letter describing Adele and his current academic work, 1933-02-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/15
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Thanking her for her long letter conveying her impressions of Bombay and India. He describes Adele and says they are making plans regarding furnishings for their home - he is doing much extra paid work which will help. Regarding Asia Minor, he will probably not go, although he has yet to tell [William] Calder as, apart from marriage, too much work is accumulating, such as his book. (A later addition to the letter notes that the Near East question is still undecided after another letter from...
Dates:
1933-02-12
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Letter thanking her for her kind remarks on his new book ['Orpheus and Greek Religion'], 1935-03-28 - 1935-03-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/18
Scope and Contents
His comments about early Christians adopting pagan symbols were mainly the fruit of his Asia Minor travels and conversations with Calder. It was difficult to distinguish between Christian or pagan monuments but Calder had made something of a hobby of this - they had come across a whole village of these during their Asia Minor expedition in 1932. His comments in the book about 'the growth of the simple story of Jesus into the myth of Christ' has caused some comment in Cambridge. He had been...
Dates:
1935-03-28 - 1935-03-29
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Photographs - mainly relating to Asia Minor, with some possibly family images, 1916 - 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/6/1
Scope and Contents
Includes various original photographs, including one of a group in Asia Minor (Turkey), W. H. Buckler, W. M. Calder and Guthrie (front right), and one of Guthrie as a young man, possibly with his parents. Includes photographs of the Acropolis and ?Delphi, Granada, signed 'WKCG Granada 1933', and several published photographs showing various sarcophagi and buildings, including La Porte doree aux Sept-Tours and Entrée principale de Sainte Sophie.
Dates:
1916 - 1940
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From the Fonds:
Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.